Academy Award and Tony Award winning actress Marcia Gay Harden offiically named Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest and largest ship, the 130,000-ton Carnival Dream, during a shipboard ceremony in New York on Thursday.

Harden presided over the naming ceremony for the new 3,646-passenger vessel, which following a pair of eight-day voyages from New York, will launch year-round Caribbean service from Port Canaveral, Fla., December 3.